Pedicularis labradorica |
Pedicularis bracteosa |
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Labrador lousewort, pédiculaire du Labrador |
bract lousewort, fernleaf, towering lousewort, wood-betony |
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Habit | Plants 2–25 cm. | Plants 20–80 cm. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Leaves | basal 2 or 3, blade lanceolate, 10–20 x 2–3 mm, 1- or 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping, serrate, surfaces glabrous; cauline 1–4, blade linear to lanceolate, 10–50 x 2–10 mm, undivided or 1- or 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping, serrate to 2-serrate, surfaces glabrous or sparsely downy to hispid. |
basal 0–10, blade lanceolate, 20–120 x 10–60 mm, 1- or 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping or slightly overlapping distally, 1- or 2-serrate, surfaces glabrous; cauline 4–10, blade lanceolate, 10–270 x 8–150 mm, undivided or 1- or 2-pinnatifid, margins of adjacent lobes nonoverlapping, serrate to 2-serrate, surfaces glabrous or scattered glandular. |
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Racemes | paniculate or buds present in cauline leaf axils, 1–8, exceeding basal leaves, each 5–20-flowered; bracts linear to narrowly lanceolate, 7–15 x 1–2 mm, undivided or 1-pinnatifid, proximal margins entire, distal 1- or 2-serrate, sometimes crenulate, surfaces glabrous or hispid. |
simple, 1–4, exceeding basal leaves, each 15–75-flowered; bracts lanceolate or subulate to trullate, 10–20 x 2–10 mm, undivided, proximal margins entire, distal entire or serrate, surfaces glabrous, hispid, or tomentose. |
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Pedicels | 0.5–2 mm. |
0.5–1 mm. |
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Flowers | calyx 5–8 mm, glabrous, lobes 2, triangular, 0.5–1.5 mm, apex entire, sometimes slightly bifurcate, glabrous; corolla 12–18 mm, tube deep yellow, 7–10 mm; galea dark yellow or yellow tinged with purple or spotted, 5–9 mm, beakless, margins entire medially, 1-toothed distally, apex arching over abaxial lip; abaxial lip dark yellow, 5–7 mm. |
calyx 7–15 mm, glabrous or tomentose, lobes 5, triangular or filiform, 1–10 mm, apex entire, glabrous or ciliate; corolla 14–27 mm, tube yellow or dark blood red, 6–12 mm; galea yellow to yellow tinged with red, purple tinged with yellow, or dark blood red, 6–15 mm, beakless or beaked, beak straight, 0.8–2.5 mm, margins entire medially and distally, apex arching over abaxial lip; abaxial lip expanded, yellow, yellow tinged with purple, or dark blood red, 4.5–6.5 mm. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Pedicularis labradorica |
Pedicularis bracteosa |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Open forests, tundras, heathlands, rocky slopes, muskegs. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 300–1100 m. (1000–3600 ft.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
AK; AB; BC; LB; MB; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT; Greenland; Asia (China, Russia)
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CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC
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Discussion | The flowers of Pedicularis labradorica are usually yellow or dark yellow, and the galea is tinged distally with red or purple; sometimes, the yellow color of the tube abruptly transitions into red or purple. Hultén based var. sulphurea on the solid yellow color variant from the Yukon. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 8 (8 in the flora). Pedicularis bracteosa is found in subalpine habitats across much of western North America, occurring throughout the Rocky Mountains from central British Columbia and Alberta to northern New Mexico, as well as the Coast Range south to northern California. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 17, p. 524. | FNA vol. 17, p. 515. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Orobanchaceae > Pedicularis | Orobanchaceae > Pedicularis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | P. labradorica var. sulphurea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | Wirsing: Eclog. Bot. [2], plate 10. (1778) | Bentham: in W. J. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2: 110. (1838) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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